Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Varus Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Varus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rumble. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rumble helps Varus perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus plays on the same team as Rumble, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Rumble helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rumble.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Rumble on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Rumble does a poor job of covering Varus during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Varus that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Rumble is a very typical ally for Varus. By being on the same side as Varus, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Varus and Rumble that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players must be careful when enlisting Rumble teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Varus and Rumble together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Rumble teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus to work well with Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Varus and Rumble synergy build consist of Muramana, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Varus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Rumble than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Varus players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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